Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 160 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
- media
- killing
- missouri
- admiration
- hold-up robbery
- jesse james
- cowardliness
- family
- coward
- revisionist western
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jeremy Renner — Wood Hite
- Garret Dillahunt — Ed Miller
- Sam Shepard — Frank James
- Mary-Louise Parker — Zee James
- Zooey Deschanel — Dorothy Evans
- Ted Levine — Sheriff Timberlake
- Michael Parks — Henry Craig
- Alison Elliott — Martha Bolton
- James Carville — Governor Crittenden
- Tom Aldredge — Major George Hite
- Hugh Ross — Narrator (voice)
- Directed
- Andrew Dominik
- Written
- Andrew Dominik
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 2,830 ratings
- Studio
- Plan B Entertainment, Virtual Studios, Scott Free Productions, Alberta Film Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
